How To Find High School Friends On Facebook

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Find out how you can locate and reconnect with old friends on Facebook. — Find out how you tin locate and reconnect with old friends on Facebook.

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How to Find and Connect with Erstwhile Friends on Facebook

For some time I take wanted to connect with sometime friends I oasis't seen in years, on Facebook. Unfortunately, almost of them accept very common names. Have you ever tried to detect a "Jane Smith" or a Ted Williams" in a people search on Facebook when you take no idea if they accept moved, and you don't have a current email accost?

Let's say yous do expect up "Nancy Jones." You will probably get at least xxx of them. At least one-half of these volition have no identifying information such as a city or pic bachelor unless yous are already a friend. Y'all don't actually desire to send letters to 20 people request if they are the Nancy Jones you went to school with 20 years ago at UCLA. How exercise you find the correct Nancy Jones? I don't promise that you tin can, merely here is what I have tried this calendar week that and so far has worked for me.

Finding a friend with a common name on Facebook can be a frustrating task.

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Look for Mutual Friends

Starting time, I started thinking in terms of who knows who else that I know. I started with a church directory I saved from 20 years ago. I found one person I wanted to search for that had both an uncommon (or and so I thought) first and last name. I thought that since many of us were mutual friends, I might be able to detect the other friends I was seeking, though (I'1000 making this up), Mathitbelle Glockmeyer. So I looked up Mathitbelle Glockmeyer—bingo! At that place she was.

So I clicked on her proper noun and really lucked out considering not only her picture showed but also her friend listing. Since it's a very big world, I checked the friend list to see if I recognized any names. Bingo again! I found i with the last proper noun of Miller that I would never take found by looking upward her proper name. Now I was sure I had the correct Mathitbelle Glockmeyer, so I sent the friend asking. Then I started down the friend links.

I checked the Miller'southward list of friends and striking the jackpot. Her list had the name of the minister'south wife of the church many of my friends near my sometime dwelling had attended. I found anybody else I had been looking for on that listing.

Search for Friends With More Mutual Names

I was lucky since some of my friends permit some bit of data evidence in their profiles that could aid old friends find them. Sometimes the person you are looking for has no information except their name showing, forth with 10 or 15 others with the same name. When this happens, consider if y'all accept mutual friends yous can find who have less common names, and then search their friend list if it'due south visible. You tin can usually tell if y'all have the right friend if you lot see the names of their family members in their friend list or the names of common friends.

Employ every clue you can discover since the location might not be the ane you remember. The outset friend I looked upwards and found had moved clear beyond the canton, but her friend list confirmed I had the correct person.

Search for Their Children

Here's how I located my favorite college roommate. My last letter was not returned most half-dozen years agone, and I wasn't certain my friend was fifty-fifty nonetheless alive. Her proper noun is unusual, and it does not come upwardly on a search. Neither does her married man's name. What to do next? Try the children.

I know my friend had 2 daughters, but I didn't know where they live now or if they accept changed their names. I looked up the first one and checked her friend list. The second girl'due south name appeared on the friend list, so I was pretty sure I had struck gold. Concluding night I sent a bulletin to the older daughter request about her mother and giving enough identifying information to ostend that we were indeed friends and that I had fifty-fifty visited them all in Maryland in 1985 with my family.

I finally heard back from both daughters, and it turns out the younger one is living about her mother in Texas. Unfortunately, the reason my letters and emails were never answered is that my friend now has dementia. But at least she's alive, and I can get news of her and see her pictures through her daughters.

Make Information technology Easy for Friends to Find You

If you are the kind of person who would like to connect with your old friends—peculiarly those with common names—get in easy for them to notice y'all. If you are married, exist sure to put your maiden proper name equally a centre proper noun. Your old high school friends may non know your married name or recognize you if you transport a friend request without information technology.

Send a Personal Note When Y'all Achieve Out to Reconnect

If you lot practice send a friend request, be sure to include a personal note to remind your quondam friend how you lot knew each other. The memory can fade later 25 or 50 years. I know when I get my notices from Classmates.com most who has visited my profile, I recognize some names of people who were acquaintances but tin call up picayune about them. People y'all used to know in loftier school may non remember you lot very well either. Make it easy for them to call back you.

I promise that these hints will make it easier for yous to finally connect with some of those former friends y'all've been looking for. If you can't find them on Facebook, you might also try Plaxo or MySpace, depending upon which venue y'all think they'd be more likely to utilise. At present I call up I'll go effort to observe some other people I've been looking for.

Whether it's a friend from camp, school, church, or even a convention, you might be able to get in touch again through Facebook. — Whether it'southward a friend from army camp, school, church building, or even a convention, you might be able to go in touch again through Facebook.

Other Suggestions for Locating People

Some of the comments I have received were from people who were unsuccessful in locating friends and family on Facebook. Sometimes we accept to face up the fact that many people desire to keep a depression profile on the Internet, and some don't even take computers. The older a person is, the more probable they may not remember a computer is of import enough to get. There are people I haven't been able to locate either.

Start a Blog or Website

If yous accept not been able to find someone following my suggestions above, I advise you lot get a domain that's just your ain name. Use it to get-go a weblog. Make a post for each person you lot want to find with their names and all identifying data you have (but not birthdate and social security numbers or other aids to identity thieves). Y'all might mention what you lot know about locations they've lived, schools they've attended (with years), and places they have been employed if you lot know them. Mention the names of mutual friends and family unit members.

Most everyone on the Internet at some time Googles himself just to encounter what's been written about him. If you take his proper noun online, chances are he will find it if he looks. Or possibly one of the friends or family members will Google themselves and see that you are looking for that person, and they may know who he is.

I will non postal service comments here that would plough this into a bulletin board for searchers, particularly those with email addresses or telephone numbers. You actually don't want those posted in such a public place because it will open yous to all sorts of unwanted messages and calls. Get a domain or get-go a blog with your name in it and allow people search for you. Most web hosts give you a gratuitous domain email address you can mail on your website without giving away your personal email address.

Happy hunting and good luck!

Friendship Is Precious

Make new friends, but keep the former.
One is silver, the other aureate.

It's not always easy to find your one-time friends once again, but it's well worth the endeavor. I'thou not suggesting you lot friend every possible person on Facebook or whatsoever other networking site, but it's a great identify to get back in touch with those lost friends who used to mean a lot to you.

How has Facebook or another networking site helped you lot to keep in bear upon?

Barbara Radisavljevic (writer) from Templeton, CA on December 11, 2022:

Read and comment on the posts of other and participate in the forums.

Marukh from Islamabad on July 07, 2022:

And how to find friends on hub pages?

Barbara Radisavljevic (writer) from Templeton, CA on July 21, 2022:

shameemweb, you lot but tin't observe people on Facebook if they have no account at that place. Just if you take common friends on Facebook, y'all might be able to contact them near that mutual friend yous are looking for.

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on July 21, 2022:

Shaam, Information technology is hard to keep up with all of the features and applications available in Facebook. I tend not to use nigh of them because I take privacy concerns. I don't similar making my friends' information available to strangers and applications, for example. I'm glad you enjoy Facebook.

shameemweb from India on July 21, 2022:

Its not much easy to find the friends through facebook until they create account

ShaamCA from India on July twenty, 2022:

Facebook is really growing very fast it has got many features in information technology ..plays a major part in social media network and this friend finder is actually amazing

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on February 14, 2022:

I wish I could assist you lot more, but I only am able to tell you how I plant people. I wasn't able to find everyone considering some people just don't have an online life and don't leave internet footprints.

lalitha ranjanee on February xi, 2022:

i am lalitha ranjanee from sri lanka age 57 years. i am searching my sometime school days pen-pal april cannon who lived 4711,utica,michigan,usa virtually 35 years agone. please help me to find her.

my electronic mail ranjaneew@yahoo.com

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on December 29, 2022:

Ron, I added some more to this article with further suggestions. I'g not an skillful on the other sites. You might endeavour Linked In if you call up your friend may be in business. You can endeavor tweeting for data on Twitter if yous have a number of followers, with a request to retweet. Bank check Google+. I assume you've already done a Google search for your friends name. Did you cheque the Internet white pages for proper noun and last known address? Of course, many people have unlisted numbers and that might yield nix. Some people but may non desire to be establish and may not even exist live anymore. Skillful luck.

Ronbo61 on December 28, 2022:

Hi,

I came across your commodity while conducting my ain(and so far fruitless) search for an old friend.

I have searched & searched, & reviewed pay search sites, 99.9% of which are scams.

I take fiddling info & her name is quite mutual,not to mention that it has most likely been changed past wedlock. I simply know her name&her sisters name. She has a brother,but i cannot recall his proper name. Her female parent was divorced when i knew her & i only know the metropolis & country she lived in when we were connected. I say that because we ran into each other a couple of years later & she told me that she moved to an adjoining state,but i cannot remember the urban center for sure. That was over 30 years ago. I wanted to reconnect near 25 years agone,only nosotros did not have the power of the internet then & i figured it was an impossible task.

I have tried everything you suggested in your commodity & am pretty much at wits end equally far equally trying to be "the locator ".

I am now thinking that i would have a better chance if i were mail some sort of notice that would exist picked up on search engines.

Something like: "Looking for one-time friend. Tina Welch from Bowie MD 1975-76 Last known accost Arlington? Alexandria? Virginia 1978. Please let me know if you have info on how i can contact her ,or ask her to contact "Ronny" via this post"

I am quite internet savvy, just have very little feel with the social sites & the proper etiquette for posting a person search.

Near as i tin tell my best chance to locate her would be through Facebook, Twitter, or possibly Craigslist.

Maybe yous know of a forum for posting people searches?

Any suggestions y'all accept would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,Ron

Barbara Radisavljevic (writer) from Templeton, CA on May 02, 2022:

6hotfingers3, I apologize for getting your handle wrong to a higher place. I mistook the 6 for an "s." That's how it looked to my old eyes. Add to that that the brain normally interprets a bunch of letters into words it knows and I came out with Shotfingers3. Merely after I started to contact you to ask how yous choose that name did it display in large impress. Then I saw my fault. I'yard really pitiful. At present I'g wondering why six fingers instead of 10.

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on May 02, 2022:

Thanks, howcurecancer.

Shotfingers3, I'k glad you plant your relatives. I wish I could find mine. I suspect the ones I want to discover either aren't on the internet or are expressionless, since most are my age or even older.

6hotfingers3 on May 02, 2022:

FB is an amazing tool. Cheers for writing this informative article. FB is a great fashion to reconnect with pople that managed to disappear from our lives. I constitute relatives this past week that I had not talked with in years. It was a great feeling to reconnect. It was equally if we never lost contact. Bully hub!

Elena@LessIsHealthy on May 02, 2022:

I similar how you celebrate the friendship.

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on March 11, 2022:

Mrs J.B., I did detect my roomie through her daughters, but, alas, have not been able to communicate with her. Her daughter says she has developed dementia and is living in Texas. This fabricated me very sad,since Lisa said even if I came to visit, she might non recognize me. Ironically plenty, the last time I saw Kate was in California, when she came to visit her dad,who lived nearly in the shadow of the dorm where Kate and I had lived together. Her dad did recognize her, only also had dementia, then their conversation was not terrible satisfying. It gave me an idea of what a visit with Kate might be like, should I endeavor it. Kate had such a lively mind, always busy. It's hard to imagine what that mind is doing now. Her daughter Margaret is someone the entire land hears from now, since she is Margaret Talev, a White House press correspondent. Every fourth dimension I come across her byline or hear her name on the news, I remember her every bit a child at home, and I think of her mom,with whom I cannot expect to have another coherent conversation.

Mrs. J. B. from Southern California on March 11, 2022:

I am not even on FB but I want to know did you discover your favorite roomie????

Barbara Radisavljevic (author) from Templeton, CA on Baronial 08, 2009:

That's why I suggested that women who sign up for Facebook ever include a maiden name. I had to write several old friends back before approving them to ask what name I might accept known them under. Sometimes they are listed on Classmates.com under their maiden names and I tin run across in that location if I know them. Only it sure makes information technology easier to accept a friend request if you don't demand to go to all that trouble.

Peggy Forest from Houston, Texas on August 08, 2009:

Thanks for these tips. I am rather new to Facebook and am still in the learning process. Even the photos of quondam friends from many years ago may not exist a assist equally they have changed. Ha! 1 person used her high schoolhouse photo on Facebook and I immediately knew who she was. Her married name would non accept been a clue.